Clothes-pounder



W. H. HERRINGTON.

CLOTHES POUNDBR.

Patented 001;. 13,1891.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM I-I. HERRINGTON, OF LANARK, ILLINOIS.

CLOTH ES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 460,966, dated October 13, 1891.

Application filed June 10, 1891. Serial No. 395,786. (No model.)

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HERRING- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lanark, in the county of Carroll and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Washing Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes-washing devices, the objects in view being to provide a hand device for efliciently eradicating the dirt from clothes and other articles, and to so construct said device as to effect a thorough manipulation of the articles and to prevent all splashing or undue agitation of the water Within the tub.

Other objects and advantages of the inven tion will appeal' in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims. p

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a washing device constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3 is a horizont-al section. Fig. 4 is a detail of the notched conical diaphragm. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of the conoidal-shaped ange. Fig. 6 is a detail in perspective of the guard-ring.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I construct the entire device of sheet metal; and the same consists of the parts hereinafter enumerated and described, assembled in the manner to be is provided with a series of notches 5, and between the notches the edge of the diaphragm is swaged or otherwise secured `to the inner surface of the conical-shaped wall of the external hood, so that, as will be apparent, the diaphragm and hood combine to form an intermediate air-space having upper and lower vents, the former being formed in the hood, as before described, and the latter in the dia phragm.

6 designates a truncated cone-shaped or beveled ange of a lesser diameter than the base of the external hood and narrower than the distance from the point upon the dia-l phragm at which the fiange is secured to the base of the external hood, so that the ange and hood combine to form an annular space around the flange, and the lower edge of the flange is above the corresponding edge or base of the hood. The lower edge of the fiange is preferably beaded, as shown, in 0rder to give a proper stiifness and rigidity, while the upper edge thereof maybe swaged, soldered, or otherwise secured to the under surface of the conical diaphragm. This completes the construction of the washing device with the exception of the conical guard-ring 7, which ring encircles the socket 2 within the external hood immediately below the annular series of air-vents 3, at which point the guard-ring 7 is secured at its outer edge to the said hood. The ring is sufiiciently large to provide an annular space or passage-way between it and the socket 2.

In operation the clothing or other articles to be washed are placed in the tub or suds boxk employed with the proper quantity of soap or other cleansing agent and the device lowered upon the clothes and verticallyreciprocated. It will be seen that as the device is lowered upon the clothes the air within the diaphragm and the conical ange G will become condensed and in its efforts to escape will be forced through the meshes of the ap parel. In such washing devices there is always a certain amount of air that is unable to thus make its exit, and hence is forced from under the washing device and out at t-he sides of the same, causing a splattering and spraying of the water in all directions over the Il oor, Walls, and the operator, and it is for this reason that the flange G is set above the lower edge of the external hood, so that such splashin gs and surplus air are prevented from' IOO vice such surplus air and Water forced thereby strikes thesurface of the external hood and passes up the space between the hood and the Iiange and up through the perforations in the edge of the diaphragm into the chamber between the diaphragm and the external hood. The upward ow of water is here checked by the guard-rim 7 which deiiects the water back upon the upper side of the conical diaphragm,

from which it flows back into the tub through the perforations in the diaphragm and permits the surplus air to pass on out of the upper air-vents 3.

A device of the above-described construction will be found-ex tremely efficient in operation and will clearly obviate all waste of' water, thereby effecting not only a saving in this article, which is of great beneiton aecount of its scarcity in many regions, but also prevents the wetting of the operator and-the adjacent surroundings.

It will be seen that my device consists, essentially, of an inner cone formed by vparts: and 6 and an outer cone 1, the inner concibeing entirely closed at the top. In th-is respect this invention differs fromother devices of its class in that the inner cone is -not con-` nected Withthe external air at the top lby a socket or tube. I have found in practice that when `thus arranged the device spatters very much and causes agreat waste of Water. In the present invention the tube serves'only as a socket for the handle and a brace for the parts.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a washing device of the class described, the combination, with the external -conical hood having air-vents in its upper end, and a guard-ring or deiector secured to the inner surface of the hood below the vents,A

of an imperforate diaphragm located in the hood and provided with notched edges, and a iiange smaller than the hood `and secured to the diaphragm within the notches and ter minating above the base of the hood, substantially as specified.

2. The external Ihood l, perforated at 3, combinedwith handle end '2,the innerconical diaphragm L@secured -at its 'top to the handle and arranged within vthe hood, With-a space separating thehoodfrom the diaphragm, Wi th 

